¡Adios Amigos!
Occupation
- Joey Ramone - vocals
- Johnny Ramone - guitar
- CJ Ramone - bass, vocals
- Daniel Rey - guitar, production
- Dee Dee Ramone - vocals
- Marky Ramone - drums
¡ Adios Amigos! (Spanish for: " Goodbye friends ") is the last studio album by the American punk band the Ramones. It was published in 1995. After the dissolution of the band in 1996 but still several live and best-of albums the group have been published.
Genesis
Even before the release of the album, the group had announced that ¡ Adios Amigos! would be their last studio album. After a twenty-two years -long career and almost uninterrupted tours were especially the last two remaining charter members, singer Joey Ramone and guitarist Johnny Ramone, at the end of their creative forces and health.
After years of stagnant sales and a vain hope for greater commercial success in the form of chart hits of the band of the sales success of this latest album by his own admission was largely indifferent. Johnny Ramone quote:
The album was produced by longtime friend of the band, Daniel Rey, who had already worked on previous albums the group as a second guitarist. Rey is also - together with ex- bassist Dee Dee Ramone - author of six of the thirteen tracks on the album and contributed to the recordings also additional guitar parts at. On four of the songs contained took the youngest member of the band, bassist CJ Ramone, the singing.
In the illustrations on the book jacket, the band plays ironically with their self-image and its imminent dissolution: the front page shows a picture of two dinosaurs by U.S. artist Mark Kostabi, while the back cover photo " against the wall ", the band shows before a firing squad.
The music tracks on the album (selection)
- The two pieces Making Monsters For My Friends and It's Not For Me To Know Been 1994 aufgenommenenem on Dee Dee Ramones with the formation ICLC I Hate Freaks Like You album appeared.
- The title The Crusher is Dee Dee Ramones short rap career as " Dee Dee King" due to and was previously on his solo album released under this pseudonym include Standing In The Spotlight.
- In addition, cover versions of Tom Waits composition I Do not Want to Grow Up and Johnny Thunders piece I Love You are included.
- The Japanese edition of the album includes a version of the Ramones tribute song RAMONES the hard rock band Motorhead as a bonus track on the U.S. edition one finds instead, a cover version of the song Spider Man (Paul Francis Webster ).
- On the last song of the album, Born To Die In Berlin, Dee Dee Ramone sings the last verse in German, recorded over a telephone.
Track list
Compilation
The album is part of the second CD The Chrysalis Years. The compilation consists of three CDs: on the first albums are the brain drain and Mondo Bizarro included on the second CD includes the albums Acid Eaters and Adios Amigos, and on the third CD is the live album Loco Live (which is the first album with CJ on the electric bass guitar is ). The compilation is called " The Chrysalis Years", because the Ramones were at the time of these albums in the UK with the record label Chrysalis under contract.